"I need proof," Jubera told WREG. "I need a death certificate showing that he's dead because as far as I'm concerned, he's alive." Apparently, Jubera was swayed by the arguments of a woman named Esther Pilgrim, who, last week, accused Tim Dog (born Timothy Blair) of faking his own death to avoid paying her tens of thousands of dollars. Pilgrim was one of many women the rapper defrauded through an online dating scheme. (He was charged with grand larceny.)

If Blair is, indeed, alive, his case will go down as an example of how easily misinformation can spread in the age of the rapid-fire online news cycle. Virtually all of the original reports of the rapper's death-- including Pitchfork's-- can be connected to a story by The Source that can no longer be found at its original link. No original reports of his death that we have found indicated where he died or how his death was discovered.

According to an earlier report by WREG, Pilgrim sent a friend to Atlanta to search for Tim Dog's death certificate. The friend came up empty. A private investigator sent by WREG reportedly tracked down an address for Blair that was "active" in April, but no one has specified what exactly that means.

Prosecutor Jubera told WREG that he will drop the arrest warrant if Tim Dog's death can be proven.